Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic & Tails Large Fleece Throw Blanket | Official Sonic The Hedgehog Collectible Blanket | Measures 60 x 45 Inches

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Deepest gratitude for inclusion and collaboration on Artful Streets and Brattleboro First Friday public programming. The invisible blanket of sound waves emitting from the tower of WVEW extends roughly 10 miles in every direction. He works in a variety of mediums including photography, book arts, video, installation, and public art and has exhibited internationally at institutions that include: MASS MoCA, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Diana’s poetry debut, Wanting It, won the Rubery Book Award, and her anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, was released by Workman Publishing to critical acclaim and became a YA bestseller.

During the summer of 2022, we partnered with local non-profit organizations Artful Streets, the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, and Putney-based artist Amber Paris to develop a series of interactive art-making events and public installations for each of Brattleboro’s Gallery Walks (monthly, May-December). She works across diverse mediums that include fiber, bookmaking, photography, placemaking art and painting. Special acknowledgment and gratitude to Denise and Paul Pouliot, Tribal Leaders of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People in New Hampshire, who graciously welcomed us into their home and shared with us their collection of traditional Abenaki instruments and traditions.This “sonic blanket” (or listening area) was the literal and metaphorical framework for the collaboration. The idea for Sonic Blanket was born during the early days of the pandemic lockdown, while Gitelson was walking through his neighborhood in Brattleboro.

We also partnered with the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and the Brattleboro Retreat Farm for a series of public listening parties where community members were invited to sit together beneath the radio waves during a live radio broadcast.She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and was the longtime poetry critic for the San Francisco Chronicle.

At its core, "Sonic Blanket" is public art that reflects the resilience and interconnectedness of the Brattleboro community during a time of isolation and trauma due to the pandemic. Seeking to create a way to offer comfort and protection to everyone in these homes, radio waves seemed to be an apt metaphor: both an invisible forcefield hovering above us, and a comforting blanket that we sleep below. She was the 2019 grant recipient of the Crosby-Gannet and Dunham-Mason funds in partnership with the Westminster West Library. Thank you to the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center for hosting multiple broadcasting parties on their grounds. Weston is a member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and performs regularly as a soloist.

Zara Bode, William Forchion, Olive Gitelson, Cassandra Holloway, Robin Morgan, Daniel Quipp, Paula Smoot Sistare, Brandie Starr, Amanda Witman, and Diana Whitney.